7护理保健英语专业翻译练习作业(英文版)

Setbacks
Noted Hungarian Playwright “Work is the best narcotic!”
Exactly fifty years ago my father gave me the words I have lived by ever since. He was a physician. I had just started to study law at the Budapest University （布达佩斯大学）. I failed one examination. I thought I could not survive the shame so I sought escape in the consolation of failure’s closest friend, alcohol, always at hand: apricot brandy to be exact.
My father called on me unexpectedly. Like a good doctor, he discovered both the trouble and the bottle, in a second. I confessed why I had to escape reality. The dear old man then and there improvised a prescription. He explained to me that there can be no real escape in alcohol or sleeping pills-or in any drug. For any sorrow there is only one medicine, better and more reliable than all the drugs in the world: work!
How right my father was! Getting used to work might be hard. Sooner or later you succeed. It has, of course, the quality of all the narcotics. It becomes habit-forming. And once the habit is formed, sooner or later, it becomes impossible to break one’s self of it. I have never been able to break myself of the habit for fifty years.